I’m Japanese, and I’m also white American, and neither camp wants me in their camp.
MITSKIIf I have a song where I hit some really high notes, I want to try to bring in equivalently low notes somewhere in there.
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Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.
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I’ve been very careful to always make clear that I am a real person. That’s why I’m on social media a lot.
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I feel like I’ve always wanted to live in one place and stay in one place, but I always end up choosing things that make me travel.
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When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to… I finally feel like myself.
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Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.
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I think my whole identity is formed around not knowing where I’m from. It might even be that I find comfort in that confusion.
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It’s very tempting, when somebody says they like this about you, to want to do that over and over.
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Sometimes when I perform, and it’s obvious the audience is just there to party, or if I feel a wall between me and the audience, I get existential about it.
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It would actually feel forced or unnatural to try to do a different singing style or to try to change my sound completely.
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I don’t really listen to pop-country, but I like really, really old country that’s closer to folk. Like Johnny Cash, who is considered country.
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I created this ‘ideal America.’ Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, ‘Oh, I don’t belong here, either.’
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I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.
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I lived abroad most of my life in insular international communities.
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I don’t think ‘bleak’ is a bad thing.
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Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
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